Cross platform workflow whit external hdd

hey
I have a problem, I was working on a project on my mac and wanted to continue on my pc. But i got the massage that "media offline". and i had to link up the files I was using. So I did that, and that work. Then I got on my mac again and the same error occurred. I dident want to link all my files agen sow I stated thinking, and realiced that on mac external hdd is named "Volume" and on pc "G", so the path for the files get change. ( I think this is the problem).
Do enyone have a sulution to this? Or do i need to link my files every time i go form mac to pc?
Sorry for the bad English.

On the PC, you can assign a Drive Letter for that external in Windows, so that it will always be seen with the exact same Drive Letter.
Then, when you Open your Project on the PC, in PrPro, you should be prompted "Where is file ____ ?" Link to that "new" location, and that should be a one-time deal. Every time that particular external is plugged in, Windows should see it as the same Drive Letter.
For more on externals, see this article: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4542396#4542396
For more information on re-linking Source Files on an external, see this article: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4598705#4598705
Good luck,
Hunt

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